Gordon Brown’s former media chief has accused Ed Miliband of failing to utilise Labour’s biggest brains, suggesting it could be down to “paranoia”.

TP interviewed Damian McBride in the new-look Shepherd's restaurant for our ‘lunch with’ series. He told us that the Labour leader was sidelining the senior figures from the last government such as Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Douglas Alexander.

Did a Tory minister call Ed Miliband a "sanctimonious c***" during a Commons debate?

Footage of Anna Soubry yelling in the chamber was due to feature in final episode of Inside The Commons on BBC Two last night. However it was edited out at the last minute after the Daily Mail told the MP that it planned to identify her as the likely source of the insult.

The Conservative election campaign has been described as “shambolic and embarrassing” by senior Tory lobbyist.

In a comment piece for Total Politicstoday, which can be found here, Peter Bingle complains: "The entire campaign is negative and to be frank nasty. I have yet to hear any coherent and/or positive reasons to vote Conservative on 7th May."

The former Tory councillor then advises David Cameron: “Sack the hapless Grant Shapps and replace him with a serious

Boris Johnson’s father has called for the Conservatives to get greener and said he is baffled by the stance on climate change taken by Tories such as Nigel Lawson.

In a soon-to-be-published interview with TP, Stanley Johnson tells us: "I don’t think it would hurt the Tories to be a bit greener in their approach, although you could say when David Cameron went off and hugged a husky that was a bit opportunistic."

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